Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-03-17
THE DRESSING ROOFS.
AN ACTRESS SPEAKS poiNTeoLY OF
A GREAT GRIEVANCE.

The radiant adolescent was talking TO the
sunny haired actress, or rather was drawing
her out and doing the listening. He was one
of those little, STACEY men who blink and look
wise when they know nothing about the sub
iect in hand, and who maintain an appear
ance Of blandly stolid imbeciity when their
mind is not quite blank
And so they treat You so badly behind the
scenes!" he said smoothly, as the sunny haired
actress tried to clean pink satin slipper with
ammonia and then made a wry face because
the pungen. chemical went up her nose
ruthlessly, Il wouldn't stand it, by Jove. not
for minute"
"Oh, YES you would" said the little lady,
making another ammonia dab; you'd stand
a great deal more than do; you'd jump if
you got the chance, ha ha. You see, we al
expect too much. Now, before ! went upo'i
the stage used to imagine that each eveniD {
l should be shown to a dainty little dressi, g
room, richly carpeted, handsomely furnisht d.
'e-looking Glassed, be-chaired and be-sofad
was idictic enough 10 suppose that the man
+ agement would supply a wardrobe in which
| l could keep my dresses, n properties and
everything to which laid IN. Instead Of
all this-oh, my heart sinks when remember
| it.
You don't mean to say that you don't get
decent places to dress and undress in.' asked
/ the radiant adolescsnt. possessing himself Of
pink slipper and standing it on its little big
| heel
IN THE OUT TOWNS
@Listen.r she said tragically, striking an
attitude like the favorite pose of Fanny Dav-
export in Fedora I'm not going to tell
you anything about New York dressing
rooms, because-well, l don't know very
much about them, and my engagements
ahem.-call me principally to the provinces,
but can tell you all about the accOmmoda
tons out Of town. They are simply villain
Gus. They are disgrace to the managers of
theatres. Now, an one town i visited-l
won't mention names-I was shown my dress
ing room by the manager himself, who told
me he thought it such an improvement on
the general run Of dressing rooms 1t was
wooden box, not as large as one
Of the bathing rooms at the Battery
baths. On one of the walls was a piece
Of cracked mirror, which made my poor uose
lcok as though it were cut up into sections,
snd gave me n ghastly tint which no amount
II rouge would remove. There were chnks
everywhere, and if there had been one OF
those peeping Toms, one Of whom frightened
Mrs. Langtry 50 much at Birmingham,
grleved To think Of the preiicament l should
have been in. Was it coldl Well, l should say
it was That night shivered in my poor Lit
tie slippers-those very pink satin ones. i
came to the theatre from a hot dining room,
in the full process Of digesting my repast.
You can imagine with what danger to my
health was forced to undress, put on q low
bodice, and stand with trembling shoulders
"niie rouse' myseh' gio'eu nySei' anu
eohcindeu my'en. II my CONSTITUTION naun ,
oeco'i,e aeeus'"''ieu W socm eAf"suie snou,"
nave d'ed. IN gong 20 'e' you mofe 'srrloie
ohngS a, one 'nea.re ! went "' Wa
Posii'eis SHOWN 70 oresSans ,ooIi ~'nou'
ooor-not 'es''geo ol one. IL 1 cnoss 70
drsss In IT, 1 must 90 20 IN sp''e VI 'ne s'aee
carpenters anu n'ei' o' "ii "orA WI" p-SS7'
ana repassed
put you didh ! snoSe. uus', -,
| ,noush. II ees' no. 20 ao :. ae
eliiea 70 ui'es' "a. sen u s'''.n unu .e.i
Porary door Oh some sina or o,per nau oeen
risseu up ior me- vi uour. u,e neu VI a.,
"o'A were hi's' va "iins "
kept e'ery one waiting py ns. nununs ~ u
snee,' n'1ihs ~. s'e W.
sh"u,u na'e oen' anu . .,s .
sun ao', anu ''ious" ~ ''''A 'A'
very 'nahAiui i"' IT,
AN INFESTED DEN
While was stlii new 10 tne business,
continued the sunny haired actress, sitting
down by the radiant atoiescent, Il had 10
play the part Of bride IN 4 little far away
place with one theatre--a grand opera house.
of course, where grand opera never could,
would or should pe heard hao maSnih
cent white satin dress, on which l prided my
self extremely. caused 1t to be sent to the
theatre to my dressing room to await ME
there in the evening l went early. may
say that was feeling very nervous and un-
strung, and when feel like that lsimper'ngl
everything upSets me. Well, the evening
came was shown 70 my dressing room
such place! Such vile, cold, contempti-
bic, bare den! was undreased aud Was just
taking up my white bridal robe TO put on,
when to my disgust, my horror, my ioathing,
1 saw insects crawling over it. uttered q
shriek, dropped it, and l think ! tainted.
Anyway don't remember how two of my
colleagues got into my room, but there they
were. Ny den was literally infested as with
plague. ThcEe were cockroaches in all di-
rections-cockroaches to right, cockroaches
10 tit-tfie iiiose uhSeus'hiSs PciSis'ehes W.T.
.inuous stream Of the-to me-terrib!e little
insects. What could do. | had either to
put my dress on or disappoint the audience
and relinluish my salary. ! put my dress
on. went shudderingly through my part.
but my cockroaches kept making me mental
visit. and when the critics next morning said
that l seemed TO be playing with preoccupied
mind think they were tolerably correct in
GIn a very great many theatres" she went
ON, you find the walls OF your dressing room
If you can dignity them by the name OF
wais-covered WITH legends which some
playful predecessor In a mt OF abstraction has
left to immortality. They are mostly excla-
nations, and though they are biblical they
are not elegant. You get weary OF Jumping
Jehosaphat and holy Moses, when you see
them ut intervals oil half an inch where your
wall paper ought 10 pe. teu you that the
dressing room nuisance Is one OF the biggest